The diffusion of new technology is significantly affected by coverage and reimbursement decisions. A variety of agencies (public and private) make decisions as to which technologies or treatments will be covered and what the levels of reimbursement will be. Recently, these agencies' coverage decisions have tended to be strongly affected by whether a technology is cost raising or cost reducing. ...

In this paper, in order to increase system capacity and reduce the transmitting power of the user's equipment, we propose a efficient power estimation algorithm consisting of a modified open-loop power control (OLPC) and closed-loop power control (CLPC) for mobile satellite communications systems. The improved CLPC scheme, combining delay compensation algorithms and pilot diversity, is mainly a...

Many reliability prediction techniques require an estimate for the number of residual faults. In this paper, a new theory is developed for using test coverage to estimate the number of residual faults. This theory is applied to a specific example with known faults and the results agree well with the theory. The theory is used to justify the use of linear extrapolation to estimate residual fault...

IN DESIGNING COMPLEX, highperformance boards, the designer must make several decisions: What surface-mount-technology (SMT) process should I use? What test escape rate is tolerable for custom ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits)? Is IEEE Std 1149.1 boundary scan necessary? What levels of board test coverage are best? If the designer failsto optimize these fundamental parameters of b...

Traditional code based coverage criteria for industrial programs are rarely met in practice due to the large size of the coverage list. In addition, debugging industrial programs is hard due to the large search space. A new tool, REDBUG, is introduced. REDBUG is based on an optimal search in structured domain technology. REDBUG supports a reduced coverage criterion rendering the coverage of ind...

When corporations, news media and advocacy organizations embrace networked information technology, intentionally or unintentionally, they influence democratic processes. To capture and understand the influence of publicly available electronic content, the US Election 2004 Web Monitor tracked the online coverage of US presidential candidates, and investigated how this coverage reflected their po...

The number of connected devices is increasing worldwide. Not only in contexts like the Smart City, but also in rural areas, to provide advanced features like smart farming or smart logistics. Thus, wireless network technologies to efficiently allocate Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine (M2M) communications are necessary. Traditional cellular networks like Global System for Mobile c...